Smart grid sampler: This week’s industry wins and developments

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PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

As always, we have a big menu of topics in this week’s smorgasbord of smart grid wins. From outage management and analytics to energy storage and metering… and two interesting partnerships.

 

Milsoft’s Outage Management System (OMS) and Milsoft Interactive Voice Response has been chosen by Hamilton Utilities, Ohio. The utility is investing in infrastructure and technologies for system operations and customer service to ensure that it provides the most cost-effective, responsive and reliable service possible. This includes the acquisition of Milsoft Outage Management System and Milsoft Interactive Voice Response communications. Read more >>

 

C3 Energy has been chosen by Baltimore Gas & Electric to provide its smart grid analytics software. achieve its goal of ensuring cost-effective, efficient, and reliable energy delivery as it continues to develop its smart grid.  Read more >>

 

Landis+Gyr notes that Newport, Oregon-based Central Lincoln People’s Utility District has signed a five-year contract for Gridstream(R) MDMS to host the utility’s advanced metering data. Central Lincoln’s software and data storage will be hosted by Landis+Gyr as part of its Cloud Services offering. Read more >>

 

Battelle and a Massachusetts startup have signed a license agreement for Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation's power grid. The license with Lowell, Mass.-based WattJoule Corporation is expected to advance the commercial use of redox flow battery technology. Read more >>

 

Itron will provide Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP), electricity provider to nearly 240,000 customers throughout Texas, analytics software as a service to ensure the data from its Itron advanced metering network creates additional value for the utility and its customers. TNMP is more than halfway through its deployment of Itron’s network solution that utilizes cellular communications. Read more >>

GE Lighting was chosen to provide its intelligent lighting system, including LED street lighting, by the city of San Diego, making it the first city in the United States to adopt GE’s LightGrid™ technology. The new system, set to be in place by spring of this year, will offer improved and energy-efficient lighting that will save the city more than a quarter-million dollars in energy costs each year. Read more >>

 

Comverge has been selected by Fort Collins Utilities to implement a residential demand response program. Using Comverge IntelliSOURCE software, IntelliTEMP DirectLink smart thermostats, IntelliPEAK DirectLink control switches and OpenADR protocol, the system relies on customer broadband connections to enable the information exchange required to deploy successful two-way demand response programs. Read more >>

 

PARTNERSHIPS

SunSpec Alliance and the MESA Standards Alliance announced a joint effort to advance common communication standards for energy storage devices to lower costs and increase customer adoption. The MESA standards are an open, non-proprietary set of specifications and standards to accelerate interoperability, scalability, safety, quality, availability and affordability in energy storage components and systems. Read more >>

 

L&T Technology Services and Proximetry to bring modular device management to a variety of smart metering and substation monitoring solutions. This combined solution from Proximetry and L&T Technology Services will benefit a growing market of communicating devices critical for operation of electrical substations and large industrial facilities. Read more >>

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

Leidos will receive the 2013 Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ) award for Technology Merit: Smart Grid and Energy Management. The CCBJ, a business research publication, will recognize Leidos for its role as the system integrator of an intelligent load management system that can provide cheaper integration of wind power and replace expensive supply-side generation options with demand response. Read more >>

 

Did you miss last week's wins list? See it here >>

 

HOW TO SHARE YOUR WIN…

We won't promise that we can post everything we get, but if you think you have a timely and newsworthy "win" that you'd like us to consider, send it to: info@smartgridnews.com. Please include a link to a press release or article that provides details on the win.